Principal Data Scientist - Deepfake Detection
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Sep 21, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. We are seeking a Principal Data Scientist with expertise in audio/video (A/V) analysis, ML systems, and threat detection to help Microsoft Defender for Office protect the hundreds of millions of enterprise customers that rely on Microsoft collaboration platforms every day for meetings, chat, email, and more. In this role you will be a keystone in the continuous improvement of our deepfake detection strategy. You'll immerse yourself in the deepfake threat problem space and drive solutions to improve detection efficacy. As part of a team of security researchers and data scientists supporting a large customer base, you'll need to be able to ideate, adapt, and deliver quick wins with current capabilities while devising longer term durable improvements. Essential to success will be your ability to establish effective collaboration across organizational boundaries. You can expect to be 'hands on' in prototyping, testing and implementing solutions to achieve our detection effectiveness goals. You'll also help support our broader strategy for detecting social engineering techniques tangential to deepfakes. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesAs aPrincipal Data Scientist focused on protecting enterprise Microsoft customers from deepfakes and other social engineering threat vectors through Microsoft Defender,you will be responsible for: Collaborating with a diverse set of partner teams to protect enterprise Microsoft customers from deepfakes and other social engineering threat vectors Driving research and experimentation for synthetic A/V and manipulated media detection inside Teams, particularly developing evaluation and benchmarking protocols and measurements, running evaluations on new detection signals from external and internal sources, contributing to integration roadmaps, and identifying and driving effectiveness improvements Conducting experiments and analyzing new methods for generative A/V detection while maintaining an in-depth understanding of evolving generative technologies, including attacker tools and techniques Developing and supporting production ML models and heuristics to detect deepfakes and other social engineering attacks Availability and willingness to cover a periodic on-call rotation or engage in incident response as needed Embody our culture and values | |